Since lockdowns started, CNN medical commentator Dr. Leana Wen, one of the most ardent supporters of children wearing masks, has admitted that her child has been severely hurt by mask use.
Wen began back-peddling on masks a few months ago when she admitted that masks don’t work in stopping the spread of COVID, declaring that “the decision to wear a mask should shift from a government mandate to an individual choice.”
Summit.news reports: As recently as two months prior to that, Wen was advocating for the Biden administration to “further restrict the activities of the unvaccinated.”
Wen also previously entrenched a segregated society when she blamed people who hadn’t taken the jab for a COVID-19 “surge” while asserting “we can’t trust the unvaccinated.”
Wen also called for making it “hard for people to remain unvaccinated” by restricting their social freedoms.
She asserted that, “It needs to be hard for people to remain unvaccinated,” claiming that it wasn’t currently difficult (despite the group being demonized and discriminated against on a daily basis).
Wen also previously stated that children returning to school need to be forced to wear industrial grade face masks and should be subjected to weekly COVID tests until they are fully vaccinated.
Now, however, Wen says that masking kids has too many downsides.
In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Wen states “It became clear that the goal I’d hoped for — containment of covid-19 — was not reachable. This coronavirus is here to stay.”
“With this new, indefinite time frame, the benefit-risk calculus of mitigation measures shifted dramatically. I was willing to limit my children’s activities for a year or two but not for their entire childhood,” she continues.
Wen also admits that “Masking has harmed our son’s language development, and limiting both kids’ extracurriculars and social interactions would negatively affect their childhood and hinder my and my husband’s ability to work.”
As we have previously highlighted, lockdowns and masking in particular have had massively detrimental impacts upon children.
A study in Britain found that many children entering elementary school have severely underdeveloped verbal skills, with many are unable to even say their own name.
According to speech therapists, mask wearing has caused a 364% increase in patient referrals of babies and toddlers.
Another study revealed how mean IQ scores of young children born during the pandemic have tumbled by as much as 22 points while verbal, motor and cognitive performance have all suffered as a result of lockdown.
A study published in the Royal Society Open Science journal found that lockdowns in the UK caused around 60,000 children to suffer clinical depression.
Figures show that 400,000 British children were referred to mental health specialists last year for things like eating disorders and self-harm.
Education experts have asserted that forcing schoolchildren to wear face masks has caused long lasting psychological trauma.
An Ofsted report also warned of serious delays in learning caused by lockdown restrictions.
“Children turning two years old will have been surrounded by adults wearing masks for their whole lives and have therefore been unable to see lip movements or mouth shapes as regularly,” states the report.
Another study out of Germany which found that the reading ability of children has plummeted compared to pre-COVID times thanks to lockdown policies that led to the closure of schools.
If our leaders had known that N-95 masks… had people worn them from the beginning of the Covid19 crisis, we would probably be done with the Covid19 crisis. N-95 masks work.
Actually, no… They do NOT unless you have a perfect fit on the face and not many people get a perfect-fitting mask. N-95 was being saved for first responders, doctors & nurses. The rest of us got to wear made-in-China masks made in sweatshops… I watched a video of n idiot in China rubbing his feet with masks destined for other countries… From that day on, I claimed medical exemption. Paste into youtube Man Rubs Face Masks On His Shoes In A Factory In China
Covid is Not a real desease, it only exists on a computer screen!
What people had was the flue, and least effective mask would be a full faced negative pressure canister filtered mask!
Covid has Never been isolated, look it up people!
Wen has discovered what happens when you marry politics with healthcare… I hope her kid is ok and I hope Wen learned a very important lesson which should begin with a heartfelt apology to the American people.